Month: September 2016

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sadio Mane signed for Liverpool for 34m ($45m), becoming Africa’s most expensive player The English Premier League has released the official list of 25-player squads for the 2016/17 season. The BBC’s Stanley Kwenda looks at seven things about the African players in the Premier League. Nine per cent There […]

Jake BrightCrunch Network Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor: Mark Zuckerberg meets with African tech leaders on Nigerian tour Responding to the demand for reliable data collection in Africa, mSurvey raises seed funding How to join the network […]

(CNN)At just 18 years old, Fred Swaniker became a head teacher. Since then he’s built an empire that he hopes will enrich and empower the entire continent. “The greatest equalizer in life is education,” Swaniker told CNN. “If you can give people a chance to get this education, then we can actually get […]

London (AP) — Scientists trying to predict the future path of Zika say that 2.6 billion people living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at risk of infection, based on a new analysis of travel, climate and mosquito patterns in those regions. Some of the most vulnerable countries include India, China, the Philippines, […]

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Nigeria, his first to sub-Saharan Africa, has put the country’s tech businesses firmly in the world’s spotlight. Zuckerberg staged a surprise visit to the country’s economic capital Lagos on Tuesday and his first stop was a local innovation center and tech hub in Yaba, an area […]

Lagos (CNN)The Japanese surgeon who gifted the Nigerian Olympic football team nearly $400,000 said they would have received the money even if they didn’t win a medal. Katsuya Takasu said he was so taken with the spirit of the Nigerian side that he planned to give each player $10,000 even if they failed to […]

(CNN)Do you know your Niger from Nigeria? Your Libya from Liberia? Take our quiz to find out. Warning: you might learn some surprising facts about the second largest continent (not country!) in the world. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/10/africa/africa-knowledge-quiz/index.html

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sadio Mane signed for Liverpool for 34m ($45m), becoming Africa’s most expensive player The English Premier League has released the official list of 25-player squads for the 2016/17 season. The BBC’s Stanley Kwenda looks at seven things about the African players in the Premier League. Nine per cent There […]

Jake BrightCrunch Network Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor: Mark Zuckerberg meets with African tech leaders on Nigerian tour Responding to the demand for reliable data collection in Africa, mSurvey raises seed funding How to join the network […]

(CNN)At just 18 years old, Fred Swaniker became a head teacher. Since then he’s built an empire that he hopes will enrich and empower the entire continent. “The greatest equalizer in life is education,” Swaniker told CNN. “If you can give people a chance to get this education, then we can actually get […]

Michael Chu'di Ejekam

Michael Chu'di Ejekam is a Commercial Real Estate Developer born in Nigeria. He is a graduate of "The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania", a private Ivy League university business school located in Philadelphia.